Edme Mariotte (c. 1620 - May 12, 1684) was a French physicist and priest. Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ...

Mariotte is best known for his recognition in 1676 of Boyle's Law about the inverse relationship of volume and pressures in gases. In 1660 he had discovered the eye's blind spot [1]. Events January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer Bacons Rebellion Russo-Turkish Wars commence. ... Boyles law (sometimes known as the Boyle Mariotte law) is one of the gas laws. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A blind spot, also known as a scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field. ...

Mariotte spent most of his life at Dijon, where he was prior of St Martin sous Beaune. He was one of the first members of the French Academy of Sciences founded at Paris in 1666. The first volume of the Histoire et memoires de l'Academie (1733) contains many original papers by him upon a great variety of physical subjects, such as the motion of fluids, the nature of colour, the notes of the trumpet, the barometer, the fall of bodies, the recoil of guns, the freezing of water etc. Location within France Street in the centre of Dijon Arc de triomphe known as the Porte Guillaume, on Place Darcy in the centre of Dijon Dijon and suburbs Dijon ( (help· info)) is a city in eastern France, the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Côte-dOr département... The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 3 miles behind. ... Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... A subset of the phases of matter, fluids include liquids, gases, plasmas and, to some extent, plastic solids. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... Trumpeter redirects to here. ... Schematic drawing of a simple mercury barometer with vertical mercury column and reservoir at base Table of Pneumaticks, 1728 Cyclopaedia A barometer is an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure. ... 155 mm M198 howitzer U.S. Army soldier with a compact M249 variant USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of nine 16/50 and six 5/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984. ... A girl in a swimming pool Water (from the Old English waeter; c. ...

His Essais de physique, four in number, of which the first three were published at Paris between 1676 and 1679, are his most important works, and form, together with a Traite de la percussion des corps, the first volume of the Oeuvres de Mariotte (2 vols., Leiden, 1717). The second of these essays (De la nature de l'air) contains the statement of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely as the pressure, which, though very generally called by the name of Mariotte, had been discovered in 1660 by Robert Boyle. The fourth essay is a systematic treatment of the nature of colour, with a description of many curious experiments and a discussion of the rainbow, halos, parhelia, diffraction, and the more purely physiological phenomena of colour. The discovery of the blind spot is noted in a short paper in the second volume of his collected works. Events January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer Bacons Rebellion Russo-Turkish Wars commence. ... Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. ... // Events January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance February 26-March 6 What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... Robert Boyle The Honourable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 - December 30, 1692) was an Irish natural philosopher, noted for his work in physics and chemistry. ... A complete half-circle rainbow at Lake Zurich. ...

See also

• Mariotte's bottle

Mariottes Bottle Mariotte’s bottle (after Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) a French physicist) is a device that provides a constant pressure that will deliver a constant rate of flow from closed bottles or tanks. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.